Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two ...

In 2019. Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik published “Hollywood’s Eve.” The biography, based on an earlier article ...

Eve Babitz, the “dowager groupie” who wrote Slow Days, Fast Company and was known for her relationships with the likes of The ...

In the Literary It-girl universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics.

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Once Anolik completed “Hollywood’s Eve,” she hoped the book would serve as a kind of “auto-exorcism” closing the chapter on ...

Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...

Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

A new book compares the authors and frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, but its fixation on their rivalry obscures the ...

The exclusive event included a reading of Babitz’s unsent letters by those A-list actors and the book’s author herself, Lili ...

In ‘Didion & Babitz,’ journalist Lili Anolik unpacks the volatile yet symbiotic relationship between two literary icons.